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In 1945, The United Union of Evangelical Christians (EC) and Evangelical Christian Baptists (ECB) published the first issue of the Brotherly Herland. Iakov Ivanovich Zhydkov, chairman of the national (USSR) Union of Evangelical Christians and Baptists, became the chief editor. The editorial committee consisted of M.I. Golyaev, M.A. Orlov, and Alexander Vasi'yevich Karev. The leadership of the NUECB (all-National Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists) set the main task of the journal to form "Unity" in the midst of protestant churches of the moderate type. Thus, in the preface of the first issue of the journal it was stated, "The task of the Brotherly Herald is to work in such a way that unity might penetrate the bodies and blood of all brothers and sisters and become indestructible even going through tests and difficulties. May the Lord Himself make one united nation of two movements in His Name. Our mottos are the words from the Holy Scripture, they are dear to our hearts, 'We preach Christ crucified' (1 Cor. 1:23), 'Stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel' (Phil. 1:27), 'One Lord, one faith, one baptism' (Eph. 4:5)". ❧ The second purpose of the periodical (which was to be published every other month) was to inculcate "correct training" of church members (correct from the spiritual as well as civic points of view). This purpose was successfully fulfilled by publication of texts of sermons, spiritually-edifying articles, official appeals and reports. The journal consisted of the following contents: 1. Religious and patriotic Evangelical Christians and Baptists and the Motherland. 2. Sermons and spiritual articles. 3. From history of the Evangelical Baptist movement in USSR. 4. From history of Christianity. 5. Biographies and necrologies of Evangelical Christians and Baptists. 6. Life and activity of NUECB. ❧ The address of the editorial office was in Moscow, Pokrovsky Boulevard, Maliy Vuzovsky Lane, 3.